every on say we are with the tamils, that and this ? are they with Tamils so they watch them die and be tortured , humiliated ?

Do not ever trust these corrupt Indian and Sri Lankan politicians. These people should know Actions speaks louder then words. In last few days the wiki leaks have shows grate hole Indian morale values.

yes we are also with tamils, but not with terorist (LTTE) always we against to terorist.

To whom did Sonia speak ? To the Global Tamil Forum or the G/F/Terrorists in Cassoacks??
What is there to be concerned about SL Tamils, they get more aid and better attention by the GOSL than the majority community.
JOBS, HOMES,DEVELOPMENT and to everything they are privy. Including the hypocrite Western World too focus on them.
There is an imbalance in assistance.

Where are the financiers who assisted Velu7 & LTTE to decimate the other Tamils in a senseless war??
Is the Tamil lower Class that expendable & worthless ? Only have to survive and enjoy the spoils??

FACTS ARE STUBBOURON EVEN AFTER SUFFERING. God help the Tamils& not Sonia.

Indian politicians who are in power do know on how to choose their words carefully.

The Sinhalese are the new colonial power of north and east of Sri Lanka

They are misappropriating the resources of the north and east. Colonisation by sinhala masses are continuing.

In an Ideal Democratic country the human rights of minorities will be preserved and cared for.

How sweet sonia....!

If the GTF wants to really help the shattered Tamils back home better do the constractive dialog through the GOSL with positive apporoch.as far as we can see its only to show our community that they are doing something.and appear in the media.
If notice the local election results you can see little Gadafi appearing in south east asia.

concern about them ??

sort it out the Hindu pakistan problem before intervening in internal affairs of my country you are trying to create a sri lankan suicide team. Now US very clever they put bribery charge to Indian parliaments and asking support us to create genocide case against to sri lanka, and we will remove wikkilis cable hahaha

sri lankan is not stupid

Sri Lanka has become an unfair pastime for some world leaders who are taking their condemnations against Sri Lanka a little too far. A country that has managed to eliminate the world's worst terrorist outfit - its entire 3-tiered leadership deserves more respect than it is getting & it is a shame that even the UN & some of its heads are taking a personal vendetta against Sri Lanka & this needs to stop. The accusations against Sri Lanka are not only unfair it is overrated & fabricated & Sri Lanka deserves an apology for the manner it has been treated.

It is within the argument of discrimination that a few questions are posed for the reader to wonder whether there is any country that does not suffer from some sort of discrimination & many of the very countries that condemn Sri Lanka are themselves faced with discriminations that are not only ethnic but racial as well. In the present, there have been increased violence against Indian's studying in Australia & Indian's themselves have retaliated & unless the authorities deal with the issue it is likely to spread to other states & possibly other countries as well.

Remaining on the subject of migrant populations the International Labor Organization estimates that there are 120 million migrant workers throughout the globe. Migrant workers are often prepared to work for lower wages under poorer conditions than their native workers & an ILO report states "Discrimination affects the lives of migrant and ethnic minority workers throughout the countries of western Europe. The marginalization and segregation resulting from this discrimination feed the very stereotypes and prejudices which originally generated it -- to the detriment of not only the migrant and ethnic minority communities, but also to the society as a whole." Minorities and migrants face discrimination in employment, housing and education. In everyday life people of 'colored' skin are confronted with offensive behavior and disrespect.

There is enough historical evidence to show how immigrants have suffered & continue to suffer wherever they make their second home. In the 1899s & early 20th century, the Jews & Italian immigrants were subject to extreme prejudice & racism in the US. Latin Americans have also been target of bias-motivated crimes as have been Asians. The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882 barring Chinese laborers entering the US & this Act was repealed only in 1943. Following the 9/11 attacks US discrimination is presently targeted towards Muslims. Similarly, it was at the advent of industrialization & during post-war that saw an influx of migrants to Britain to cater to the shortages of labor. The UK has the highest level of racially-motivated violence & harassment in Western Europe. "I don't-feel fully British: non-whites are not yet completely first-class citizens" is often what is on most immigrant minds especially those who are frequently called "paki" "nigger" or other such names.

Europe is the region with the highest concentrations of non-nationals in the world, with 26-30 million non-national residents. Even 60 years after the end of the Second World War racially motivated discrimination is a constant companion of Europe. A survey conducted in Europe (23,500 people - Agency for Fundamental Rights) has revealed that discrimination on the grounds of ethnic origin (48%) is widespread & increasing. In the Netherlands 4 out of 5 people say ethnic discrimination is widespread & more than one in five have actually witnessed these incidents. In Demark ethnic discrimination is 69%, Italy 58%, Belgium 56% while Cyprus is 23%. The bulk of discrimination is targeted at Roma category.

75% of Czechs do not want Roma people as their neighbors & every fifth person doesn't want to live next to foreigners. 50% of immigrants living in Finland have experienced racism & a report released in 2005 by the Finnish League for Human Rights revealed that racism & ethnic discrimination were regrettably common in Finland. Racist & anti-Semitic violence has doubled in France since 2004 with Jews & Muslims the main victims. A report by the European Commission Against Racism & Tolerance reported in 2005 that "minority groups, including immigrants & persons with an immigrant background have to contend with discrimination especially in access to employment & housing". Similarly in 2005, the European Court of Justice ruled that Germany had failed to implement EU race anti-discrimination law which prohibited discrimination on the grounds of race or ethnic group in a wide range of areas including employment, education, social security, healthcare, access to goods & services & housing.

The survey, in which 23,500 people from ethnic and immigrant minorities were interviewed, is the first by the European Union to study the experience of minorities in member countries. It was conducted by the Vienna-based European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, an E.U. body set up in 2007 to advise policy makers on safeguarding human rights.

The survey showed that 55 percent of minorities considered discrimination based on ethnic origin to be widespread in the country where they were living; 37 percent said they personally had suffered discrimination over the previous year. Twelve percent of respondents said they had experienced a racist crime in the last 12 months, but of those 80 percent said they did not report it.

The highest reported level of discrimination based on ethnic or immigrant origin was reported by North African migrants in Italy, where 94 percent of respondents said it was widespread. Ninety percent of Roma, also called gypsies, in Hungary said discrimination was rife.

Throughout Europe, one out of two Roma interviewed said that he or she had been mistreated on racist grounds in the previous 12 months.

The outcome of the survey was plain - while most of these EU nations enjoy pulling up smaller developing nations & accusing them of discrimination these very nations are committing atrocities in their own homes. What can the 27 member EU states say about 90% having experienced discrimination in these countries? A report by the Council of Europe's European Commission Against Racism & Tolerance has found France rife with racist activity & accused the French authorities of not doing enough to combat this.

We cannot deny that most of the discriminations based on ethnicity & caste arose as a direct result of colonial rule where it suited colonial powers to divide the nations. It is tragic how despite only a few years of gaining independence from colonial rule, most of the African continent is at war or facing some unrest. The conflicts have arisen due to the involvement of non-African nations & corporations most of whom are stirring up ethnic differences & enticing hatred further aggravated by the artificial boundaries imposed in Africa by European colonialism & imperialism as a result of their divide & rule policies. The manner in which large corporations run regimes is evident by the landmark judgment with Shell having to pay USD55.5million in compensation.

In 2001, the UN World Conference on Racism was held. As expected what resulted from it was that the US & Europe were both against discussions on slavery reparations, Israel & US were against discussions Zionist racism against Palestinians, India was against discussions on caste-based discriminations & the Arab nations opposed discussions on oppression of Kurds or Arab slave trade.

A world that is faced with a plethora of challenges ranging from conflicts to terror, climate change to financial collapses the UN bringing together heads of Governments, NGOs, and Corporation heads should have met with success but more & more we begin to question what the UN has achieved all these years.

Evaluating the success of the UN lies fundamentally in seeing how far it has reached in eliminating wars, poverty & injustice....not much of a score & with examples like Rwanda, Darfur, the Balkans, scandals within the UN like the Oil-For-Food program in Iraq ....some of these conflicts were staged in order for NATO troops to enter these states. Can the world depend on the UN? Much of the world's problems rest with economy & the poverty status therefore it would do the UN good to steer its programs primarily towards uplifting global trade, improving poverty & dismantling financial organizations that only serve to make developing nations caught up in debt.

Sri Lanka should not be fettered by any of these calls for quick-fix solutions by the very nations that have attempted to humiliate us. We are well aware that Prabakaran was only a mere guinea pig for foreign elements who have orchestrated the 30 year conflict in Sri Lanka to which most of Sri Lanka's past Governments & leaders had fallen prey unable to see the larger picture & motives behind the strategy to create an "ethnic backlash". It is more than evident as we run through Sri Lanka's conflict that the 1983 incident was staged & foreign elements have also been party to this move....within days it was declared that an "ethnic conflict" was prevailing in Sri Lanka when it was well aware that the "riots" were staged & the JR Jayawardena Government was part responsible for it. A country that heard the news of 13 soldiers was supposed to have gone on a killing rampage against Tamils...this is hard to believe considering that post-83 with LTTE having committed over 200 heinous crimes & scores of deaths upon innocent women & children & student clergy there were no backlash against Tamils. The people had more reasons to strike than the 1983 incident. Which is why it is never too late that the Sinhalese should receive a formal apology from the world. The Tamil people who have remained silent all these years must admit even at this late hour that their Sinhalese neighbors protected them & did not as was depicted burn & destroy their homes. They owe this much to the Sinhalese.

None of these featured discriminations come close to the suffering the Blacks of America & the Blacks in their own home in South Africa suffered with perhaps the exception of the Dalits in India. Looking upon Sri Lanka it is very clear that the Tamils suffer none of these discriminations & none of the sufferings that the above examples provide. Tamils are employed everywhere - they have been holding top positions in both Government & Private sector & had Lakshman Kadiragamar not been assassinated by the LTTE he would have become Sri Lanka's first Tamil Prime Minister...which is why we are beginning to wonder how a very visible caste-minded Tamil society would have ever accepted low-caste Prabakaran as the leader of the Tamil Eelaam....wasn't he just being used to carve out the separate state only to later be dislodged eventually (as the case of Ben Bella of Algeria) & for a high caste Tamil to take control of Tamil Eelaam....unfortunately the elusive KP doesn't figure at all as he too belongs to the low caste which is why his leadership role is being challenged despite being called the "international head" of the LTTE.

Therefore, in the realm of politics the conflicts & problems that prevail globally have elements of conspiracy & espionage very much woven into their existence....Iraq, Afghanistan, the African continent, Pakistan, Serbia are all good examples of masterminds at work & Sri Lanka has been no exception.

Therefore, now that Sri Lanka proudly stands as the only country to have eliminated modern terrorism militarily & nullifying elements that have been remote controlling the lives of Sri Lanka populace...we are in a good position to disregard all notions that we have had to accept under duress & confidently project the correct picture to the world. Tamils do not suffer discriminations - none of which are exclusively relevant to them, all types of "grievances" are shared by other communities including the Sinhalese & therefore we do not require any form of devolution except that whatever administrative systems in place must be energized, their shortcomings resolved, administrative hiccups attended to & Government circulars to be simplified & to ensure that there are dispatched in the correct medium that the recipient would comprehend. Similarly, infrastructure, education must all improve factoring into consideration that Sri Lanka needs a sound policy to ensure that we do not sacrifice our heritage & culture to elements that are out to dismantle countries socially.

Sri Lanka's future should not be to cater to the political careers of a handful of Tamil leaders who desire to lead a small portion of Tamils in a devolved Northern area when the majority of these Tamils reside amongst the Sinhalese. No area must be demarcated by ethnic proportions for it is likely to merit future unrest. These are just some of the hypocrisies that prevail in the world & merits our leaders to be alert to all of the calls that are presently coming our way with regard to the type of solution we are offering. With the elimination of terrorism which has global reach Sri Lanka has restricted the interference of foreign players to Sri Lanka. Therefore, all concerned nations & leaders are not in any position to dictate terms to Sri Lanka - they can provide advice (if requested) & assistance but they cannot demand or dictate what we should do. What Sri Lanka does internally is Sri Lanka's prerogative & even the UN chief has no right to ask us not to indulge in "triumph" - he and many other nations does not know the feeling that a country that had 30 years of terror & has managed to military defeat must be feeling. Therefore, it is rather farcical to imagine how a 13th amendment can look after the IDPs who are needing food, clothing, shelter etc!

Sri Lanka must not be in any hurry to offer any solution to any of the problems that "interested elements" have cast upon Sri Lanka, for we do not have any of the discriminations that prevail in most nations today & Tamils themselves barring their proxy leaders must be honest to admit so.

They say History repeats. Looks like Ramayana is going to repeat starting with the oil fields in Mannar basin, few years after the Mahavamsa Triumph in 2009.

Mrs. Gandhi speaks nothing but plain truth; India are with Tamils, not Sri Lanka, no matter whether Tamils (of course only a section) are right or wrong. When it comes to politics, every thing is fair; so there you go.

This leaves just one serious question: Who are we, Sri lankans, in front of India? And how much should we truct India!

Mrs Gandhi should know that playing the Tamil card has long term repercursions for both India and Sri Lanka.

Tamils are an integral part of Sri Lanka, as much of that of India and they have continued to live and coexist with all races of both countries in peace and in dignity, until LTTE 'hijacked' them all. The time has now come for all stake holders to douse, rather than 'inflame' hatred against each other.

We hope Mrs. Sonia Gandhi will NOT set up 'LTTE' Training camps in India just the way her Mother-in-law did, which led to annihilation of hundreds of thousands of people in Sri Lanka. Remember who killed your own husband, Rajiv Gandhi!

She should give rights to the Tamil Nadu Tamils before she worries about us in Sri Lanka. We dont have home land Not in Laqnka not in India. She should help us create a homeland in India.

Hi! Mrs Ghandhi, your mother-in-law encouraged the RAW to train unemployed Tamil youth militorily in South India against the JR Jayawardene regime of SriLanka.

Today once again you are speaking nonsence while we are fighting to re-cover our Economy.We have enough past Evidence to be careful from your destructive Foreign Policy towards SriLanka.

A few Lankan Tamils gathering in London to ridicule and humiliate Mrs. Sonia Gandhi remind us there lie within us still deeply prejudiced and misplaced persons unable to distinguish between friend and foe of the Tamil cause. That congenital prejudice against the "Vadakaththan" blew to fanatical levels at Siriperumbuthur - and has created a deep scar of suspicion in TNadu and Indian minds that will not disappear easily and soon. And now this.

Mrs Sonia Gandhi has made her line of thought in the Lankan matter unambiguous here. The hard truth is the Sinhalese, Tamils and the GoSL can only solve this long complex matter with the goodwill and support of India.

ISS

Mrs. Gandhi should educate herself on the matters in Sri Lanka without making loose or supportive comments to questions raised by the GTF, which is merely a front of the separatist Tamils toeing the LTTE line.

Systamatic rape : Not a shred of evidence in Sri Lanka. Wonder where these come from ?

Running with the hares and hunting with the hounds best describes Indian policy in Sri Lanka. Indian tolerance and support provided at international fora enabled the GOSL act with impunity and in breach of international conventions

India is also primarily responsible for the imprisonment and deprivation of General Sarath Fonseka.

Sonia we all know tamil nadu provincial election is new few months, so of course we know you are with tamils...lol.

Thank you Mrs. Sonia Gandhi

Gamini Lindagedera, Why talk about the annihilated LTTE?

Mrs. Sonia Gandhi is no her Mother in law and Tamils are NOT LTTE.

Tamils have the moral high-ground, Dont forget all the citizenship removals, pogroms, library burnings and enforced disappearances and prison deaths carried out by Sinhala Buddhist mobs. The world has not forgotten.

Thank you Mrs. Sonia Gandhi.

Way to go GTF!!! congratulations in getting Mrs. Sonia Gandhi's attention. Thank you Mrs. Sonia Gandhi.

Yes madam.... i think Rajive also the same..... gohead...gohead

This is nothing new.Probably, President refuses to sign an agreement India wants.This is the only way.We have seen this before.

Dear Mrs Gandhi, Kindly open your eye's and look short distence Millions of your own country men wemen children suffering from everything please kindly go help them.
Sri Lankan tamils have lots of sources of help comming to them,The only matter is how those people can get it to their hands.

Excuse me...I would like to know where this systematic RAPE is happening in SL?what kind of bull shit is this?

It looks like Sonia has no clue about what really happening in the country to answer becos SL is not her genuine concern...let's face it guys...INDIA or INDIANS have no genuine concern for sri lankans...they have more problmes to solve than us...

the problme is with the tamil disapora ...sri lankan tamil ppl are trying to recover their lives...and these con men in the west are trying to paint a differnt picture for their own good....

for a moment I dont even think that western tamil disapora is ever bothered about sri lanka tamil ppl...it all about money

If you are so concerned about the Tamils - then take them back to India and resettle them in Tamil Nadu - where they belong.

Without the LTTE in Srilanka. Gandhi ally in Tamil Nadu is in a fix.

Both Opposition and Govt members are openly siding with the LTTE supporters.

Obviously Mrs G has to neutralize this momentum of support as well as lend a hand to her ally in the up coming elections.

In the meantime, Mahinda Chintana has scored another landslide.

The score card is bad news for the Opposition and their Foreign buddies.

LTTE and Diaspora agents have 12 out of 234

UNP has lost further support among the Sinhalese even losing their supposed to be strogholds,

As for the JVP, people have relegated them to the dust bin of Srilankan politics.

There you go.

I know only of systematic killings of innocent Sinhalese in border villages, planting bombs in public transport killing scores of Sinhalese civilians, killing Buddhist and Muslim priests, killing top politicians including Rajiv Gandi and many Sri Lankan leaders irrespective of their ethnicity, suicide bombing, hiding among Tamil civilians and trying to capitalize on their deaths, holding hundreds of thousands of innocent Tamils as a shield in the final stage of war, collecting hard earned money form Tamil diaspora in developed countries and channeling it to buy lethal weapons to kill people and doing many more illegal things across the world by these elements who now make bogus show in the west.
They creep in to developed countries like UK, Canada and enjoy the wealth and benefits of those countries. These people never seek refuge in developing poor countries. They need this " human rights, violence, rape" to keep their refuge status and lush in the west. I am sure non of these people would ever like to go back and fight risking their life. They are the ones who are responsible for deaths of thousands of brain washed Tamils though present day Tamil youth would not bother to listen to their old song.

Gentlemen, please stop this joke, your hands are blood stained!

What a joke, we tamils how long going to face this ? oh god save my people from this people....

DON'T USE THESE TAMILS FOR YOUR ADVANTAGE.

Tamil Nadu Election talk, that's all.

Nothing to be concerned or exited about.

Interference in our country, threatening it's leaders and trying to subjugate Sinhalese, the overwhelming majority continues unabated.

It stregthens our resolve not to allow partitioning or reserving enclaves to specific communities of our country at what ever cost. Many underestimate (like Rober Blake, Sonias, American senate or British parliament) strength of our survival instinct in the face of external aggression for thousands of years.

Comparisons with all other countries in whatever measure would indicate that minorities of this country are not far worse off than the general populous of the majority.

Tamils of TN should remember and vote accordingly. They should not get fooled again.

Really interesting collection.

"Tamils are an integral part of Sri Lanka, as much of that of India and they have continued to live and coexist with all races of both countries in peace and in dignity, until LTTE 'hijacked' them all. The time has now come for all stake holders to douse, rather than 'inflame' hatred against each other"

Tamils were happily co-existing until you guys hounded them like hunting animals since 1956!!! How many GOVERNMENT ORGANISED pogroms since then!!! I have lost count of them!!! when the 1983 pogrom caught the "eyes of the world" thanks to the television, GOVERNEMNT started their atrociites in the Tamil lands itself away from the eyes of the world, long before the LTTE was born.

You guys conveniently start the history from the point which is advantages for you, nd expect everyone to be fools.

Even now long after the LTTE is gone, there is killing, raping, robbing, goes on unabated through by the security forces, the state funded paramilitaries, land grabbing, disppearances, name changing of traditional tamil names etc.

Thank you Ms. Sonia Gandhi, Those "doubting" and campagning on behalf of Sri Lanka soldiers, need to look at the record in Haiti of SL forces under blude helmet. Truth comes about SLA when under limelight.

SL Army gulity criminals of many

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape

In Haiti, more than 100 peacekeepers from Sri Lanka have been deported on suspicion of illicit liaisons.

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/15/world/fg-haitisex15

For a few hundred dead, international players bomb Libya.

Mahinda, backed by Sonia's advisors killed 60,000 civilians. International players are calling for war crimes probe. What a shame on international conscience.

What else could Tamils have done to have prevented death of 60,000 Tamil civilians (all happened in 1 week) other than:

1. Demonstrations in UK, USA, AUstralia, Europe just days before this massacre by Sinhalese
2. Maya came out in PBS (Travis Smiely) a day before and warned of this massacre in US media.
3. One girl held fast unto death and former presidential bidder Kerry promised her action and made her give up the fast. 2 days later, 60,000 Tamils were massacred
3. Innumerable self immolations in TamilNadu did not convince brahminial medias such as Hindu or the powerful Mu.Ka family to stop this massacre
4. Indian premier Manmohan Singh was chiding Tamil MPs when they requested him to intervene to stop the last stage of the war when 60,000 Tamils were massacred. His argument was, if LTTE was rescued, they will eliminate sinhalese leaders. But now he is happily forgetting that LTTE's elimination helped sinhalese kill 60,000 innocent Tamils, all with blessings of Sonia, Manmohan Singh and their keralite advisors including their deputed friend in UN, Mr. Vijay Nambiar.

One day, Sonia, Manmohan Singh and their keralite advisors will need to answer for this masscare.